In some usages, e.g. virtio-balloon, a kernel module needs to know if
page poisoning is in use. This patch exposes the page_poisoning_enabled
function to kernel modules.
Signed-off-by: Wei Wang <wei.w.wang@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/page_poison.c | 6 ++++++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
diff --git a/mm/page_poison.c b/mm/page_poison.c
index e83fd44..762b472 100644
--- a/mm/page_poison.c
+++ b/mm/page_poison.c
@@ -17,6 +17,11 @@ static int early_page_poison_param(char *buf)
}
early_param("page_poison", early_page_poison_param);
+/**
+ * page_poisoning_enabled - check if page poisoning is enabled
+ *
+ * Return true if page poisoning is enabled, or false if not.
+ */
bool page_poisoning_enabled(void)
{
/*
@@ -29,6 +34,7 @@ bool page_poisoning_enabled(void)
(!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC) &&
debug_pagealloc_enabled()));
}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(page_poisoning_enabled);
static void poison_page(struct page *page)
{
--
2.7.4
